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Killing Bunnies

I do not condone killing bunnies unless you are going to eat them. Yum.

However, I started on the subject because I saw a commercial and it was about deviants in relationships. It was labeling each type of relationship reject with names like gold digger and bunny boiler. Bunny Boiler? WTF?

Well apparently it is more common here in the UK and refers to a scorn woman who has psychopathic tendencies. Basically, the term derived from the movie Fatal Attraction when a jilted chick, sought revenge on her ex-lover. She puts his family's pet bunny in a boiling pot whilst they are away from the house. When the family come back, the kids sadly search for the bunny and the wife and the ex-lover find it dead in a boiling pot of water.

Now a side note: I read that description online of a bunny boiler on wikipedia and read the fatal attraction part. I was like eww she cooked their pet rabbit! But I still don't know why she is a bunny boiler." A few seconds later I realised I am just a dumb ass. Anyway. Continue...

Well I have seen a few bunny boilers now that I think about it more and it is a funny term which I can't wait to try to use. But wait! There are more ways to kill bunnies and this one isn't for luck!

Have you heard of using a bunny as a pregnancy test? Well apparently, people used to extract blood or urine from a woman who thought she was pregnant. Then they injected that in to a bunny. A few days later they extract the bunny's ovaries to examine if they had any change due to the pregnant womans hormone, Hcg. If the woman was preggers, the ovaries would be affected, if not, she was not pregnant.

In case you were wondering, YES this actually worked and was used on mice and frogs as well within the past 40 years. Although the bunny could have had an anesthetic to check the ovaries, it was more often killed because it was "easier." This led to the inaccurate term, "the rabbit died," in referring to a positive pregnancy test, even though all bunnies died.

It has been used in many tv shows and even in the song by Aerosmith song "Sweet Emotion." In it they say "Can't catch me 'cause the rabbit done died." Which doesn't make sense but anyway, that is what it is referring to. I get pissed spending the few quid/bucks on a pregnancy test but I am glad I don't have to kill a bunny :/

Oh and if you are going to eat rabbit, they actually have no nutritional value and if you tried to subsist on them, you would die. Rabbit starvation is the form of acute malnutrition caused by excess consumption of any lean meat (specifically rabbit) coupled with a lack of other sources of nutrients. Symptoms include diarrhea, headache, lassitude, a vague discomfort and hunger that can only be satisfied by consumption of fat or carbohydrates. Then you die a slow painful but tasty death.

If you are sick of dead rabbits, watch this clip and watch one that eats peoples.

Posted by deanne at August 3, 2008 01:02 PM